This blog was co-written by Nitin Madnani andJimmy Lin, both researchers at the University of Maryland, who are sharing their thoughts and experiences with Apache Hadoop and Python for improving Natural Language Processing techniques.

If you listen to analysts talk about complex data, they all agree, it’s growing, and faster than anything else before. Complex data can mean a lot of things,

Richard Hutton, CTO of nugg.ad, authored the following post about how and why his company uses Apache Hadoop.

nugg.ad operates Europe’s largest targeting platform. The company’s core business is to derive targeting recommendations from clicks and surveys. We measure these, store them in log files and later make sense of them all. In 2007 up until mid 2009 we used a classical data warehouse solution.